Chapter 5 Chapter 5: Dark Palace and Labyrinth

Everything seemed to be calm again in a blink of an eye. Looking at the empty and tall brick and stone buildings around, there was still a peaceful moat in front of him, and there was nothing in front of him, as if the thrilling scene just now had never happened. . Looking back, I saw that the old man had put back the Nine Dragons Jade Flute with a sullen face, and then turned around and walked back without saying a word. I had a lot of questions but I didn't dare to ask them, so I had to walk quickly with him. I saw him quickly counting the number of bricks and stones we passed, and marking them with the wet black gunpowder in the suede bag. After walking around, I found that the shape of the place he marked was very strange, although It seems incoherent, but it gives people a very familiar feeling.

The old man looked down at the marked bricks and stones, corresponding to the position on the wall next to him, and then illuminated them with the only dim light in the flashlight. Whenever he passed a brick and stone on the wall, he moved the light away. At that time, the stone will be shining with little bits and pieces of shimmering light.I've seen this before. In the burial chamber of the Tongding town corpse, the ferocious northern basalt seems to be made of the same material. It seems that some mica rock or fluorescent stone was added in the process of firing bricks. Materials that store light for a short time can store a certain amount of light as long as they are briefly irradiated by light.

Finally, after the old man lit up all the bricks and stones that can store light, I took a deep breath, and on the big wall behind us, all the bricks and stones that were lit turned out to be a map of the twenty-eight constellations .From left to right, they are southeast and northwest. I only have a vague impression of the ghosts, willows, stars, and other astrology, but the seven stars in the northern sky are too familiar. The handle of the spoon pointed straight at a spot on the ground. My heart skipped a beat, because in ancient times, the North Star that was guided by the Big Dipper was actually the Ziwei Star, and the Ziwei Star was the Emperor Star. Could it be that the position pointed by the Northern Sky Seven Stars is the one who was buried here with the emperor's ceremony? Chai family's descendant bone tomb.

Just when I was about to ask a question, the old man stepped on the position guided by the Big Dipper, as if he was spiritual, the brick fell in response to the sound, and just fell into a pit like this, before I Before I had time to see what was in the pit, I heard a burst of rattling sound coming continuously. Looking back, the water that was still full of the ditch just now was swirling, and the water level kept sinking. Soon, stone piers appeared in the ditch. There were stone piers lined up in front of each gate, six There are six rows of stone piers in front of the gate. However, when the water level dropped to a certain level, they stopped going down. A piece of dark stone piers only raised a shallow head in the water, as if a group of people submerged in the water were exposed. Same on top of head.

Without thinking much about it, I raised my legs and stepped up the stone pier. The gate was in front of me. Of course I wanted to go in as soon as possible.It is very likely that the tomb robbers who went down before us are inside.We can only use their communication tools to contact the outside world as soon as possible to catch up with the tomb robbers who came down before us, and then think about how to escape from the sky. The old man gave me a hard tug and pulled me behind me.I looked at him inexplicably, only to see that he took off the suede pocket on my waist, found a broken brick and stuffed it in, aimed at the stone pier closest to us and threw it over.I saw a burst of water splashing, and the seemingly solid stone pier fell into the water together with the broken bricks like a piece of floating wood. I saw a tumbling in the water, and the suede bag disappeared in a blink of an eye. .

I wiped the cold sweat off my brow, and looked at the black ditch with a pool of ink with a little fear, God knows what was hidden underneath. "This is a labyrinth road. It looks like a real road, but it's actually a fake one. As long as people step on it, they will feed the river ghost." The old man who had been holding back for a long time finally spoke, and I also breathed a sigh of relief.In fact, his wordless silence is what scares me the most, because I don't understand that since seeing these strange monkeys, he has been acting very nervous and vaguely disturbing.

Before I could open my mouth to ask questions, the old man had already put his hand into the hole he stepped out of just now, and with a pull, he saw a narrow door slowly revealing from the place where the water surface just dropped. It turns out that this is the real gate to enter the underground palace, and the six gates guarded by Liuding Liujia we saw just now enter the six tomb chambers, which are the so-called niches of the six gods in the legendary Liushen trapped dragon lock. The old man put away the small flashlight that was almost out of power, and connected the large flashlight that had been split in two just now. The bright light illuminated the entire ditch. The old man pointed his hand levelly at the water surface, and saw There were faint shadows under some of the stone piers. The old man found the nearest one and stepped on it.

It was a solid stone pier, neither turned nor shaken. The old man breathed a sigh of relief, found the second stone pier, stood firm, and motioned for me to follow, and I quickly stood on it.It turned out that only the stone pier with a shadow under the water has roots, while the other stone pier are all organs. In this way, we walked over the stone pier one by one until we reached the gate of the narrow gate of the inner palace of the underground palace.The stone pier at the door is surprisingly big, just like a small square table, the old man and I are more than enough to stand on it. The inner palace gate of the underground palace is not full of charades or traps like the first two gates. It only has two simple rings. When the old man pulls hard, the two gates are pulled open like a Japanese sliding gate.Before I had time to look inside, I felt the sound of breathing behind me, no, the old man is in front of me, who is behind?When I looked back, I saw a stranger squatting beside me, looking in the same direction as I was at the opened door.Seeing me looking back at him, he suddenly bared his teeth, and there was a horrible smile on his pale face, and then he heard a strange laugh, as if an owl was stuck in the neck, and he suddenly spoke: "How do you I just came, I have been waiting for you for a long time!"

Just when I was startled, I felt a gust of cold wind gushing out from behind, like being pushed hard, and then swooped, pushing the old man into the low palace gate together.